AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam Discussions & Posts
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on: May 19, 2026
Question 15:
Question 15 asks how to quickly revert to older versions of a Lambda function with the least amount of overhead.
- Correct answer: B: Use a function alias with different versions.
Why:
- AWS Lambda versions are immutable. You publish a version for each code change.
- An alias is a movable pointer to a specific version (e.g., prod ? version 5).
- Deploying a new version is just publishing another version; directing production traffic to the new version is as simple as updating the alias.
- If you need to roll back, you re-point the alias to the previous version. This is minimal operational effort and avoids rebuilding pipelines or managing multiple deployment artifacts at runtime.
Why other options are less suitable:
- A (blue/green with OpsWorks) adds complexity and tooling overhead.
- C (saving old deployment packages in S3) doesn’t provide runtime switching or instant rollback.
- D (CodePipeline) adds orchestration overhead; while useful, it’s more setup than the alias approach for simple rollback needs.
Tip: You can also use weighted alias routing to gradually shift traffic, enabling canary-style rollouts with even finer control.
São Paulo, Brazil
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on: April 16, 2026
Question 41:
- Correct answers: IntegrationLatency and Latency.
- IntegrationLatency measures the time API Gateway spends calling the backend integration (your Lambda function) and waiting for its response. This helps determine if the delay is inside the Lambda integration.
- Latency measures the total time from when API Gateway receives the request to when it sends the response back to the client. This helps identify if the timeout is due to the entire API Gateway path (including any network or gateway processing) rather than just the Lambda call.
- Why not CacheHitCount/CacheMissCount: those relate to API Gateway caching. If you’re not using caching (or the problem isn’t caching-related), they won’t help diagnose a timeout.
- Practical tip: in CloudWatch, compare Latency and IntegrationLatency for the failing method/resource. If Latency is high but IntegrationLatency is low, the delay is outside the Lambda integration (gateway/network). If IntegrationLatency is high, the Lambda/backend is the bottleneck. Also review CloudWatch Logs for API Gateway and Lambda for additional clues.
Melbourne, Australia
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 17:
Question 17: A developer wants to deploy an application quickly on AWS without manually creating the required resources. Which AWS service will meet these requirements?
- Correct answer: AWS Elastic Beanstalk (B)
Why:
- Elastic Beanstalk is a platform-as-a-service that automates provisioning of underlying resources (EC2, load balancer, auto-scaling, etc.) and handles deployment. You upload your code and Beanstalk sets up and manages the environment.
- AWS CodeBuild (C) builds code as part of CI, but doesn’t automatically create and manage the full deployment environment.
- Amazon EC2 (A) requires manual resource setup and configuration.
- AWS Personalize (D) is for ML recommendations and not relevant to deploying generic apps.
Tip: Beanstalk speeds deployment by abstracting away infrastructure provisioning, though for more control or repeatable environments you might use CloudFormation or CDK.
New Delhi, India
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 16:
Here’s the breakdown for question 16.
- Correct answer: On-Demand Instances (D)
Why:
- The app runs for only 2 months each year, with a strict uptime requirement.
- On-Demand has no long-term commitment and costs only for the hours used, making it the most cost-effective option for short, predictable windows.
- Reserved Instances (long-term 1-year or 3-year commitments) would waste money for just 2 months.
- Spot Instances are cheaper but can be interrupted, which violates the “no downtime” requirement.
- Dedicated Hosts are unnecessary for standard workloads and are more expensive, usually used for licensing/compliance needs.
Tip to meet uptime: even with on-demand, design your app architecture across multiple Availability Zones and use health checks/auto-scaling to tolerate zone failures and minimize downtime.
New Delhi, India
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on: June 23, 2026
A car insurance quote requires a view for potential customers to enter information to process the request. What are two primary decisions to make before you add fields to the view? (Choose Two) Is field entry required? Are processing actions applied to the field? Does the field require a data source? How do users enter values into the field?
Answer: A and D
Explanation: Before adding fields, decide if field entry is required (does the user must fill it) and how users will enter values (input method like text box, dropdown, etc.). Options about processing actions on the field or the data source are important but not the two core early decisions for designing the view.
Sofia, Bulgaria
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 68:
The correct answer is C (User container).
- A Distinguished Name (DN) is the full path to an entry in a directory and is made up of Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs). Each RDN is an attribute=value pair, such as:
- CN = Common Name
- OU = Organizational Unit
- O = Organization
- C = Country
- etc., sometimes including L (Locality), ST (State/Province), and DC (Domain Component).
- A "User container" is not a standard DN attribute type. A user’s location in the DN is represented by containers such as OU (and possibly CN for the user object itself), but there is no DN component called "User container."
Example DN: CN=Jane Doe,OU=Engineering,OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com
So the option not a DN component is: User container.
Budapest, Hungary
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 35:
- Why: In Check Point, a VPN Gateway can participate in multiple VPN communities as long as all gateways involved are managed by the same Security Management Server. This ensures the management database can coordinate policies, encryption domains, and tunnel configurations consistently across all communities. If gateways are managed by different Security Management servers, coordinating multiple communities becomes complex or unsupported.
- A) No — not true; gateways can be in more than one community.
- B) Modifying vpn_route.conf on each gateway is not the standard, centralized way to enable multi-community participation.
- C) The ability isn’t limited by “doesn’t pair with another gateway” but by whether the gateways share the same management server.
Budapest, Hungary
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 23:
Question 23 asks: Which of the following is NOT a method used by Identity Awareness for acquiring identity?
- Remote Access
- Active Directory Query
- Cloud IdP (Identity Provider)
- RADIUS
Answer: C: Cloud IdP (Identity Provider)
Why:
- Identity Awareness typically acquires identity from on-prem or VPN-related sources such as:
- Active Directory Query (LDAP/AD) to map IPs to users.
- Remote Access sessions, where user identity is captured when VPN clients connect.
- RADIUS events, which provide user identity information from RADIUS-authenticated devices.
- A Cloud IdP is generally not a standard direct identity source for Identity Awareness to map network identities to users. It’s more about cloud SSO/authentication, not feeding Identity Awareness with the mapping data IA uses.
So, Cloud IdP is NOT a method Identity Awareness uses to acquire identity.
Budapest, Hungary
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 16:
Question 16: An e-learning platform needs to run an application for 2 months each year with no downtime. Which EC2 option is MOST cost-effective?
Answer: On-Demand Instances (D)
Why the other options aren’t as good here:
- Reserved Instances: require a 1-year or 3-year commitment. For only 2 months of use, you’d pay for unused time and still not meet the uptime requirement cost-effectively.
- Dedicated Hosts: mainly for license/enforcement needs and to meet compliance; they’re typically more expensive and unnecessary for just ensuring uptime.
- Spot Instances: can be terminated with little or no notice, so they can’t guarantee no downtime.
On-Demand gives you no long-term commitment and you pay by the hour for the 2-month window. To truly avoid downtime, pair On-Demand with a fault-tolerant design (e.g., multi-AZ deployment and load balancing) so services stay online even if one AZ has issues. If there were a Scheduled Reserved Instances option, that could be even cheaper for a repeating 2-month window, but it isn’t listed among the choices.
Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 36:
Question 36 asks: You want to be notified if deleted users downloaded many SharePoint documents in the month before their accounts were removed. Which feature should you use?
- Best answer: Insider risk management policy
Why:
- It is designed to detect and alert on insider threats, including data exfiltration via file downloads from cloud apps like SharePoint Online.
- You can scope the policy to specific users (the ones being removed) and monitor data-access events (e.g., large numbers of downloads) within a defined window (e.g., the month before offboarding).
- It generates incidents that your security team can investigate and it integrates with Microsoft 365 Defender.
Why the other options are less suitable:
- File policy in Defender for Cloud Apps can alert on file activity in cloud apps but isn’t as tightly focused on offboarding scenarios and may not provide the same out-of-the-box “leaving employee” workflow as insider risk.
- Access review policy is for certifying or revoking access, not for detecting or alerting on data downloads.
- Alert policy in Defender for Office 365 targets email threats; not relevant to SharePoint document downloads.
What to do (high level):
- In the Defender portal, go to Insider risk management > Policies > New policy.
- Configure a policy for data exfiltration from SharePoint/OneDrive, scoped to the departing users.
- Set a threshold (e.g., downloads above a certain count in 30 days) and enable alerts/incidents for investigation.
Hyderabad, India
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 57:
Question 57 asks: What order should be used when upgrading a Management High Availability Cluster?
- The answer key shows D (Primary Management, then Secondary Management), but the recommended order is actually C: Standby Management, then Active Management.
Why C is correct:
- Standby (Secondary) is not handling traffic, so upgrading it first minimizes risk and reduces downtime.
- After the Standby is upgraded and re-synced, you upgrade the Active (Primary). This preserves HA continuity and ensures both units run compatible versions.
Mapping:
- Standby Management ˜ Secondary
- Active Management ˜ Primary
So, the safe upgrade sequence is Standby ? Active (C), not Primary ? Secondary (D).
Note: The exam bank you have may list D as the answer, but based on typical Check Point HA upgrade practice, C is the correct approach. If you want, I can walk through the exact upgrade steps for each node.
Erode, India
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 7:
The correct choice is B: Facilitate communication and team building.
Why this is correct:
- If individual performance is fine but the team isn’t performing well, the issue is typically team dynamics—communication gaps, misaligned expectations, and lack of trust. Improving how the team works together addresses the root cause, not just individual skills.
Key points to address:
- Establish clear communication channels and norms (overlaps for time zones, agreed response times, where decisions are documented).
- Implement team-building activities and cross-functional collaboration to build trust and a shared mental model.
- Create a team charter with shared goals, roles, and ground rules; ensure everyone understands how the team will work together.
- Use structured rituals (regular stand-ups, retrospectives focused on collaboration, cross-team syncs) and suitable collaboration tools.
Why not the other options:
- A (review/reassign team assignments) may disrupt harmony and doesn’t fix underlying communication issues.
- C (negotiate for new team members) addresses headcount, not the teamwork problem.
- D (update the communications management plan) helps, but without active team-building and improved collaboration, the team may still underperform.
In short, to lift overall team performance in a distributed setting, prioritizing communication and team-building activities is the most effective initial action.
Subang Jaya, Malaysia
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 80:
- Answer: C — enable limited experiences, such as blocking download of sensitive information.
- Conditional Access session controls are post-sign-in app controls (session-level) that limit what you can do inside a cloud app. They’re implemented via integration with Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Cloud App Security).
- They enable “limited experiences” in a session, e.g., blocking downloads, restricting copy/paste, or preventing printing.
- This is different from sign-in controls like MFA or device/compliant-device checks, which are evaluated at sign-in, not during the session. So options like enforcing device compliance or prompting MFA are sign-in controls, not session controls.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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on: June 23, 2026
Question 254:
Question 254 deals with how many Firewall-kernel cores you can use per cluster member when you add a new device.
Key concept:
- In a Check Point cluster, the number of cores used for the
Firewall-kernel on each device is limited by the device with the fewest cores in the cluster. In other words, the cluster uses the minimum core count among all members (the "lowest common denominator").
Apply it to the scenario:
- Current gateway: 2 cores
- New gateway: 4 cores
- Minimum cores among members = 2
- Therefore, each cluster member (including the 4-core device) can use only 2
Firewall-kernel cores.
Conclusion:
- The correct answer is 2 cores per device. The provided answer (4 cores) is incorrect because it ignores the minimum-core rule across the cluster. If both devices had 4 cores, then you could use 4 cores per device.
Melbourne, Australia
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on: June 22, 2026
Do these questions come for the exam
Short answer: not reliably. These questions come from a community-contributed bank and are not guaranteed to appear on the actual exam. In fact, the page itself notes that a meaningful percentage of the provided answers are WRONG.
What you should do instead:
- Focus on official objectives and Microsoft Learn material for the exam topic.
- Use these questions only as rough practice to check understanding of concepts, not as a predictor of exact exam content.
- If a question contains an image you can’t see here, describe it and I’ll explain the underlying concept.
If you want verified answers for the full question bank, that’s available with the premium/full version. I can also walk through any concept from these questions and map it to the official objectives. Which topic or item would you like to review?
Erode, India
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on: June 22, 2026
Question 1:
I can’t see the exhibit image, but here’s the concept behind Question 1.
- The destination is 10.10.13.10/32. A single-host IP like this is matched by a host route (prefix length /32).
- A network route would cover a subnet, e.g., 10.10.13.0/24 or 10.10.0.0/16. It routes traffic to all hosts in that network, not just one host.
- A default route (0.0.0.0/0) is used only when no other more specific route exists.
- A floating static route is a static route with a higher administrative distance, used as a backup if a more preferred route fails.
Because the destination is a specific host address (/32), the technically correct type is a host route. The route would win over any longer-prefix network route due to the longest-prefix match rule.
If the exam key shows B (network route), that contradicts the standard interpretation. It could be due to the exhibit suggesting traffic to a network containing the host, or an error in the key. In standard Cisco routing practice, you’d use a host route for 10.10.13.10/32.
Dunn, United States
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on: June 22, 2026
Question 26:
Question 26 asks how to let Compute Engine instances write data to a Cloud Storage bucket using Google-recommended practices.
Why:
- Use a dedicated service account for the VM and grant it the bucket-level IAM role
storage.objectCreator. This provides the minimum privilege needed to create objects in the bucket (write data) without giving broader access.
- Relying on IAM roles at the bucket level follows the principle of least privilege and aligns with current best practices.
Why the other options are less recommended:
- A and B rely on OAuth access scopes (
devstorage.write_only or cloud-platform). Scopes are legacy and less granular; they’re being phased out in favor of IAM roles on service accounts.
- cloud-platform is overly broad (all APIs).
- devstorage.write_only is still a scope-based approach, not the preferred per-resource permission model.
- D (storage.objectAdmin) is more permissive than needed and can allow deleting objects; use objectCreator for write-only needs unless you explicitly require delete rights.
Key concept: attach a dedicated service account to the VM and grant the narrow, bucket-level role storage.objectCreator to follow least-privilege practices. Reference: cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/iam.
Kingston, United States
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on: June 22, 2026
Question 400:
Question 400 correct answer: SLE
- Why: Single Loss Expectancy (SLE) represents the monetary loss expected from a single cybersecurity incident. It answers “what is the impact of one incident?”
- How it’s used: SLE = Asset Value × Exposure Factor (the portion of the asset that is actually lost).
- Related concepts:
- ALE (Annualized Loss Expectancy) = SLE × ARO (frequency of incidents per year) — used for annual risk.
- ARO is the rate of occurrence of incidents; not per-incident impact.
- SLA is a service level agreement, not an impact metric.
- Example: If asset value is $100,000 and exposure factor is 0.4, SLE = $40,000 per incident. If ARO is 3 per year, ALE = $120,000/year.
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on: June 22, 2026
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Edison, United States
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on: June 22, 2026
Question 463:
Q463 asks which IP address is correct to configure on the G0/0/0 interface. The correct choice is B: 145.4.2.55/26.
Why the others are invalid:
- A) 237.6.1.2/24 — 237.x.x.x is multicast, not assignable to a router interface.
- C) 127.3.1.4/28 — 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved for loopback; not for a physical interface.
- D) 192.168.10.112/30 — with /30, 192.168.10.112 is the network address (usable hosts are 113 and 114; 115 is broadcast), so it cannot be assigned to an interface.
São Paulo, Brazil
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on: June 22, 2026
Question 6:
Explanation for Question 6
- What’s happening: You have a P2S VPN to VNetA and then peered VNetA with VNetB. On-prem can reach VNetB, but the Windows 10 P2S client can’t reach VNetB yet. The issue is typically that the P2S client config still only knows about VNetA’s routes.
- Why the fix works: Re-downloading and reinstalling the VPN client configuration package updates the client with the latest route information from the VNet gateway. After peering to VNetB, you need the P2S client to carry the route to VNetB’s address space through the VNetA gateway. The refreshed config includes those routes, allowing traffic destined for VNetB to travel via the VPN tunnel.
- P2S VPN: Point-to-Site VPN for individual client computers.
- VPN gateway: The Azure appliance in a VNet that terminates VPN connections.
- VNet peering: Connects VNets to enable private traffic between them.
- Address space: The IP ranges defined for each VNet that need to be known by clients/gateways.
- Client configuration package: The downloaded files that configure the VPN client with server and route info.
- Practical takeaway: After adding a peering to a new VNet, regenerate and reinstall the P2S client config so it includes the new VNet’s routes.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
finn_k8s
on: June 17, 2026
Spent countless hours prepping for this exam and resorted to dumps at the end. The real exam questions were very hard.
Denmark
DataCenter_Dan
on: June 13, 2026
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India
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on: June 10, 2026
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hamid_certguy
on: June 08, 2026
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on: June 06, 2026
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Kuwait
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on: June 01, 2026
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Kenya
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on: May 30, 2026
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Ghana
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on: May 28, 2026
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on: May 24, 2026
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Hungary
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on: May 22, 2026
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on: May 21, 2026
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on: May 18, 2026
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Saudi Arabia
json_jock
on: May 17, 2026
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felix_linuxpro
on: May 12, 2026
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on: May 11, 2026
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on: May 10, 2026
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on: May 05, 2026
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India
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on: April 29, 2026
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on: April 26, 2026
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Malaysia
ExamSurvivor_T
on: April 25, 2026
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LinuxPlus_Len
on: April 24, 2026
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on: April 17, 2026
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Norway
graveyard_geek
on: April 08, 2026
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CloudGuy_Mike
on: April 07, 2026
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Kenya
haruto_devops
on: April 03, 2026
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Ghana
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on: April 01, 2026
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Brazil
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on: March 31, 2026
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on: March 30, 2026
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on: March 29, 2026
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on: March 27, 2026
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India
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on: March 26, 2026
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